Adoption Research Initiative
What's the ARi?
The ARi is a group of major research projects which focuses on permanence planning, matching, support for adoptive placements and the costs of adoption. The ARi was commissioned by the former Department for Education and Skills. Its dissemination and implementation programme is being funded by the Department for Education.
The findings from the projects hold key messages for all who are concerned with securing permanence and stability for children who cannot live with their birth parents.
Messages from the projects will be disseminated in various ways to different interest groups throughout 2010, 2011 and through to the summer of 2012.
Click here for more information about the background to, and aims of, the ARi.
What's new
An interview with Patricia McGinty, a Child Placement Consultant at BAAF, covering some of the practice issues raised by the ARi studies in relation to family finding. Listen now
Professor Nina Biehal will be talking about her Adoption Research Initiative study 'Belonging and Permanence' at BAAF's conference on 'How is it working for children: developments in fostering' on 14th March 2012.
ARi resources
Summaries
These are 4/5-page documents giving key findings and messages for practice. Ten of the eleven have now been published.
Research Briefs
Longer summaries - a full set is now available.
Research Reports
Details of the availability of full reports from BAAF.
Talks and presentations
Interviews with ARi researchers
Other Interviews
Practice tools
Update service
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